[4] The new building was designed by Percy Robinson and William Alban Jones in the Baroque style and built by Brand, Pettit and Co.[2] It was officially opened on 1 November 1910.

[3] The building extended back for nine bays along Patriot Square, with a smaller sculpture depicting Justice, also designed by Poole, installed in the middle of that elevation.

John MacLean, the Bolshevik Consul in Glasgow used the occasion to denounce the party leaders as being police spies, an accusation for which there was no evidence.

[3] The extension, which added an extra 21 bays to the Patriot Square elevation, featured a three-bay central section with a sculpture depicting the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green above the doorway,[a] three windows on each of the first and second floors and a pediment above.

[13] After the hotel was officially opened in November 2010,[14] the scheme received the "project of the year" award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2011.